New Pokémon officially revealed during World Championships!

Four new Pokémon making their debut in Pokémon Sun & Moon can be seen in action for the first time. While three of them have been seen in this month’s CoroCoro Magazine, there’s one totally brand new Pokémon revealed for the first time to the world public.

See the new trailer for yourself down below:

With the launch of the new trailer, the Pokémon Sun & Moon minisite has updated with new info, which we’ll cover here!

Crabrawler has a personality that really hates to lose, and it’s driven not only to aim for a higher position than its fellows in terms of social standing, but literally to aim for a higher position in the landscape. Perhaps as a result, it’s sometimes found clinging to tall people or to the walls of buildings! If you try to remove one against its will, you’ll be met with a sound punch.

Crabrawler’s favorite food is Berries. It punches the trunks of trees to give the branches a good shake and knock any ripe Berries to the ground so it can feast! Many Crabrawler may gather around a tree, but only the one that emerges victorious in battle against all the others receives the privilege of eating the ripe Berries.

Crabrawler uses its claws to protect its face and belly while getting in close to an opponent to throw punches. Its punches are powerful enough to split tree trunks! Crabrawler’s pincers are sometimes torn off during its bouts—and they are said to be delicious.

Seemingly styled after the coconut crab, Crabrawler looks like quite the pugilist! Seeing as how it gets the Ability Iron Fist, I’m curious to know what kind of punch-based techniques he learns in the game.

A Sandygast emerges when the grudges of Pokémon and other creatures soak into the sand after they fall in battle. In essence, it’s a possessed lump of sand!

If you heedlessly grab a Sandygast’s shovel, you’ll fall under the Pokémon’s control. A Sandygast uses its power to manipulate children into gathering sand to increase the size of its body. If a Sandygast loses its shovel, it may put up a tree branch, a flag, or another item in its place. These Sandygast are wanderers in search of their own shovels.

The tunnel-like mouth of a Sandygast can suck the vitality from people and Pokémon. Apparently it’s a test of courage in the Alola region to put your hand in a Sandygast’s mouth.

Sandygast has the new Water Compaction Ability, an Ability that no previous Pokémon has had. With Water Compaction, its Defense stat will go up by 2 if it’s hit with a Water-type move.

Sandygast has a pretty cool concept behind it, what with it being a ghostly sand castle and all. Its Ability Water Compaction seems to reward getting hit by Water-type moves despite Sandygatst’s weakness.

Palossand controls human adults, making them build a sand castle that provides camouflage and also raises its defensive abilities. Unlike Sandygast, if Palossand loses some of the sand from its body, it can restore itself on its own. When moving about in search of prey, the shovel on top of Palossand’s head revolves. It’s said that the shovel could be serving as some kind of radar.

Palossand loves the vitality of Pokémon and drags small Pokémon into its body so it can steal their life force. Its sandy vortex swallows them up in a heartbeat! Pokémon dragged into Palossand leave traces of their ill will behind. It’s thought that this negative energy may be the starting point of new Sandygast…

Palossand is surprisingly creepy! Going one step further from its pre-evolved form, it ups the ante by actively trying to drain the life of other Pokémon. More importantly is whether or not this Pokémon’s defensive capabilities are up to snuff, especially with that new Ability.